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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
freshen
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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▪ With the advent of new candidates, their appeals needed to be freshened up and their cutting edges toughened.
▪ If you don't get the chance to really freshen up with a shower then Femfresh has the answer.
▪ Time to use the washroom, freshen up, take breakfast and a cab to the centre of London's West End.
▪ He locked the door, showered and freshened up for supper.
▪ And you can freshen up after dinner with the amenities of a comfort pack.
▪ Its cleansing steam power is equally effective for freshening up paintwork or plasterwork on the walls or ceilings.
▪ A few drops of tangy lemon oil in the bath will freshen up a hot and clammy patient.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Freshen your skin with avocado body lotion.
▪ Some new pastel curtains should freshen up the bedroom.
▪ To freshen a celery stalk, trim the base and place in cold water.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He locked the door, showered and freshened up for supper.
▪ In addition, Ward requires on-line feedback from teachers so that the curriculum can be freshened with new insights.
▪ Restless, woozy at the margins, he freshened his drink and carried it out to the sofa in the living room.
▪ The wind was freshening and he took in the mizzen-sail.
▪ Time to use the washroom, freshen up, take breakfast and a cab to the centre of London's West End.
▪ To freshen the palate we finished with summer fruits in a delicate sugar basket with a strawberry coulis - a mouthwatering combination.
▪ With the advent of new candidates, their appeals needed to be freshened up and their cutting edges toughened.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Freshen

Freshen \Fresh"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Freshened; p. pr. & vb. n. Freshening]

  1. To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salty; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh.

  2. To refresh; to revive. [Obs.]
    --Spenser.

  3. (Naut.) To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing; as, to freshen a hawse. -- Totten.

    To freshen ballast (Naut.), to shift Or restore it.

    To freshen the hawse, to pay out a little more cable, so as to bring the chafe on another part.

    To freshen the way, to increase the speed of a vessel.
    --Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Freshen

Freshen \Fresh"en\, v. i.

  1. To grow fresh; to lose saltness.

  2. To grow brisk or strong; as, the wind freshens.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
freshen

1690s, "grow brisk, grow stronger" (intransitive), from fresh (adj.1) + -en (1). The earlier verb was simply fresh (mid-14c.). Transitive sense "refresh, revive, renew" is from 1749. Of a drink, "to top off," from 1961. Related: Freshened; freshening.

Wiktionary
freshen

vb. 1 To become fresh. 2 To make fresh. 3 (context of a cow English) To begin or resume giving milk, especially after calving. 4 To make less salty; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients. 5 To refresh; to revive. 6 (context nautical English) To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing. 7 To top up (a drink).

WordNet
freshen
  1. v. make (to feel) fresh; "The cool water refreshed us" [syn: refresh]

  2. become or make oneself fresh again; "She freshened up after the tennis game" [syn: refresh, refreshen, freshen up]

  3. make fresh again [syn: refresh, refreshen] [ant: tire]

Usage examples of "freshen".

I can freshen up while you go belowstairs to make your final preparations for the journey.

The sound differed from the hiss of escaping air that she sometimes heard in the narrower passages where, in response to the dictates of Bernoulli, the constant zephyr freshened into something stronger.

The port of Bilbao was just a speck in the distance, the breeze was freshening, and their boat was bobbing up and down.

Some merchants invent brands, as the dina was invented, in order to freshen the nature of their merchandise and stimulate sales.

Back in the lab, the freshened Stephie tries to engage Gus in a deep conversation about the loss of heterozygosity or some other such nonsense.

With the air-conditioning on high, she sprays breath freshener on a handkerchief and holds it over her nose.

The freshening breeze carried snatches of song from alehouses and cries of newspages as they trailed back to their offices for evening accounting, the savor of meat stewing with onion and garlic, and the wild clean scent of the grassland that stretched to the sea.

They are about a mile astern now, I should say, and unless the wind freshens up a bit they will be alongside in about twenty minutes.

At midnight the wind freshened, and before long the cracking of the masts, and the rattling of the cordage, and groaning of the timbers, awakened the passengers, who speedily made their appearance on deck-- at least Paganel, Glenarvan, the Major and Robert.

In the vast ballroom over the medley of entwined revolving couples, punkahs had been fixed, to clear and freshen the languid air, and these huge fans, moving with incredible slowness, drove a faint refreshing draught down over the sea of white shirt-fronts and bare necks, and freed the scent from innumerable flowers.

Although Erdomese did not take baths on the wholea complete immersion for any length of time would remove naturally protective oils and could lead to an ugly and sometimes painful itchy skin condition akin to mangespraying their faces and upper torsos with a showerlike wand could have a cooling and freshening effect.

Moist towelettes were designed for freshening your hands after eating a Big Mac in the car.

I dressed carefully, and made myself look less weary, and to freshen myself up I had a long drive in an open carriage.

Minutes later, clad in the red silk dress, Caralie stood in the bathroom and freshened her makeup.

Could a Chancellor's flaxen-haired daughter, freshened by a strapping young Doctor of Philosophy like those in the Tales, surpass Mary Appenzeller's output of seventy-three pounds of butterfat in her first year's milking?